Film Forum

Rosalynde LeBlanc, Producer and Co-Director
Rosalynde LeBlanc danced with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (1993 -1999), and Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project (1999 - 2002). She has also worked onscreen with film directors Burt Barr, John Turturro, Gretchen Bender, and Matthew Rolston. She can be seen in the short film, ROZ, the PBS Specials, Still/Here, Free to Dance, Dancing in the Light, A Good Man, and in the feature film, ROMANCE AND CIGARETTES. Ms. LeBlanc Loo is a leading figure in the legacy and pedagogy of Bill T. Jones. She re-stages his work around the country and runs the Jones/Zane Educational Partnership at Loyola Marymount University, where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Dance. In 2020, her work in dance research and pedagogy was recognized with an honorary induction into the Jesuit Honor Society, Alpha Sigma Nu.

Tom Hurwitz, ASC, Co-Director and Director of Photography
Tom Hurwitz, ASC, a member of the American Society of Cinematographers, is one of America’s most honored documentary cinematographers. Winner of two Emmy Awards, the Sundance and Jerusalem Film Festival Awards for Best Cinematography, Hurwitz has photographed films that have won four academy awards and several more nominations, recently for Dancemaker and Killing in the Name. Mr. Hurwitz’s features and television programs have won dozens of awards—Emmy, Dupont, Peabody, Directors Guild and film festival awards for Best Documentary—over the last 25 years. He recently won Emmy Awards for Best Documentary Specials for the PBS show Jerome Robbins and the PBS series Franklin, as well as Sundance Awards for QUEEN OF VERSAILLES, and LOVE FREE OR DIE. Other award-winning films and programs that Mr. Hurwitz has photographed include: STUDIO 54, CRADLE OF CHAMPIONS, JOAN DIDION: THE CENTER WILL NOT HOLD, NOTHING LEFT UNSAID: GLORIA VANDERBILT AND ANDERSON COOPER, VALENTINO: THE LAST EMPEROR, HARLAN COUNTY, USA, WILD MAN BLUES, MY GENERAION, DOWN AND OUT IN AMERICA, THE TURANDOT PROJECT; Liberty! and Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero, for PBS; I Have a Dream, for ABC; and Killing in the Name, and Questioning Faith for HBO. In addition, films that he has directed have won the Cine Golden Eagle and have been shown in festivals around the world. Mr. Hurwitz is also a founding member of the faculty of The MFA Program in the Social Documentary Film Program at New York’s School of Visual Arts.

Wendy Perron, a former dancer/choreographer, is a current dance writer, teacher, historian, and curator. She was a member of the Trisha Brown Company in the 1970s and choreographed more than 40 works for her own group, which performed at The Joyce, Danspace Project, Lincoln Center Festival and across the country. Wendy has taught at Bennington, Princeton, and NYU Tisch School of the Arts, among other schools. In the early ’90s she was associate director of Jacob’s Pillow, for which she organized the International Improvisation Workshop. In 2011 she was the first dance artist to be inducted into the New York Foundation for the Arts’ Hall of Fame. She has written hundreds of reviews, interviews, features and blog entries for Dance Magazine, where she was editor in chief from 2004 to 2013. Her articles have also appeared in The New York Times, Contact Quarterly, and publications in Europe and China. Her acclaimed book, The Grand Union: Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance, 1970–1976, was published in 2020. She currently teaches dance history at Juilliard and has launched an online series titled “Unsung Heroes of Dance History.” This summer she is performing with Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks.

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